Section 1825 Of Article 3. Establishment Of Conservatorship From California Probate Code >> Division 4. >> Part 3. >> Chapter 1. >> Article 3.
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. (a) The proposed conservatee shall be produced at the hearing
except in the following cases:
(1) Where the proposed conservatee is out of the state when served
and is not the petitioner.
(2) Where the proposed conservatee is unable to attend the hearing
by reason of medical inability.
(3) Where the court investigator has reported to the court that
the proposed conservatee has expressly communicated that the proposed
conservatee (i) is not willing to attend the hearing, (ii) does not
wish to contest the establishment of the conservatorship, and (iii)
does not object to the proposed conservator or prefer that another
person act as conservator, and the court makes an order that the
proposed conservatee need not attend the hearing.
(b) If the proposed conservatee is unable to attend the hearing
because of medical inability, such inability shall be established (1)
by the affidavit or certificate of a licensed medical practitioner
or (2) if the proposed conservatee is an adherent of a religion whose
tenets and practices call for reliance on prayer alone for healing
and is under treatment by an accredited practitioner of that
religion, by the affidavit of the practitioner. The affidavit or
certificate is evidence only of the proposed conservatee's inability
to attend the hearing and shall not be considered in determining the
issue of need for the establishment of a conservatorship.
(c) Emotional or psychological instability is not good cause for
the absence of the proposed conservatee from the hearing unless, by
reason of such instability, attendance at the hearing is likely to
cause serious and immediate physiological damage to the proposed
conservatee.